I will concede that legalized marijuana sales that were justified for medical uses are being abused, but I fail to see the problem with that. What do you think “ordinary dopers” look like? They look like your neighbors, your co-workers and any other “ordinary citizens” you might know.

With legalized sales, all proceeds go to legitimate business owners and the state (through taxes). Without legalized sales, all proceeds go to criminals and eventually Mexican and South American drug cartels. I cannot understand how anyone thinks that’s preferable to taxing and regulating the sales.

If you made the argument that alcohol should be prohibited and spent money on attack ads showing only winos and wife beating drunks and drunk driving statistics you’d be labeled a clown and a stereotyping jerk. Yet people do that with cannabis all the time. The thing that is most frustrating is they have less sound reasoning to continue cannabis than they have for the dangers of alcohol. Many simply are insecure and project an air of arrogance, like their non use of cannabis makes them better than those who do. That is patently false and in many cases opposite of the truth. I don’t smoke pot but many well educated, well spoken, very intelligent and creative people enjoy cannabis on occasion and they should have the right to do so. Hopefully some will realize this and replace insecurity and ignorance with education and the filter of Constitutional freedom.

CT7- buzzer sound of wrong answer. Explain why legalization is a step “TOO FAR”? It is far costlier to prosecute anyone for the non crime of marijuana use/sale. Legalize it. Period. Anything else is a wast of time, money, and life!;-}+<

Because I feel if it is legal, more people will get high in greater frequency, quantity.

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